$782,000 settlement – Failure to diagnose neck injury in ER

Our client was a 52 year-old man who went to the emergency room with back and neck pain following a work accident.  The health care providers failed to diagnose a severe spinal infection, eventually resulting in neurologic injury.  John Elliott Leighton obtained a confidential $782,000 settlement with the hospital.

 

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